On the 13th instant, two men were brought before the Court, charged with being concerned, together with others not yet in custody, in unlawfully abducting and detaining a complainant in a house in the country from the 6th to the 11th inst., and aliso with extorting the sum of $110. from the complainant's wife by means of threats. The prisoners were then remanded in order that the other four mea concerned might be arrested.
Inspector Chilver now stated that the other men concerned! had not yet been found, and suggested that the tio' prisoners now before the Court be dealt with at once.
'The prisoners were sentenced to 600 blows and two years' imprisonment each.
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